1.2.5 Summary chronology and associated artefacts

The table below summarises a chronology for Scotland base on artefact types. Although, as it will be seen, this chronology does not reveal what appear to be obvious changes for example around 1400BC in the settlement record, the period subdivisions are used to subdivide the Scottish Bronze Age in the overview chapter that follows.

Table 2: Summary chronology and associated artefact types for Scotland (based on Needham et al 2010 Table 1 and Needham 1996 Fig 3 for the Southern British Bronze Age). It is not clear whether any iron objects can confidently be dated to this period.